Two false starts can disqualify you in track and field. Good thing it's not like that in hiking. I recently went to the Pinaleño Mountains near Safford to hike part of the Ladybug Trail. But thanks to ...

OAKLAND — The annual spectacle involving tens of thousands of ladybugs, or a loveliness, converging near two specific trails in Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park is underway now through mid-February.

There’d been a big rain, the kind of rain Californians have been desperate for. But as I drove through Fruitvale, my mental compass set on Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park in the Oakland Hills, I was ...

Colorado’s mountains are a hot spot for the ladies — ladybugs, that is. In late summer, the mountains are the destination for an annual ladybug migration. Ladybugs gorge themselves on aphids on ...